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Flavor-Bomb Burgers

Enough with those toothpick-impaled sliders. Open wide for our five taste-so-good-you-could-cry takes on the classic hamburger.

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Chris Nuttall-Smith

June 4, 2011

No one can say for certain when or where the first hamburger was served. Denizens of New Haven, Conn., Seymour, Wis., Hamburg, N.Y., and Athens, Texas, have all made claims of ownership dating back as early as the 1880s; other burger historians say that a Wichita, Kan., cook was the first to put a flat, griddle-cooked ground-beef patty inside a custom-purpose white-bread bun sometime around 1915. What cannot be disputed, however, is the hamburger's place in the nation's culture.